Mr. Evins leaves the shopping mall with his doctor’s bag only 25 minutes before the first outbreak. He walks to his car, enters it, starts the engine, and pulls forward out of the space he had backed into only 1440 seconds before the first infected leaps for the place his bumper was, missing it by a foot. He begins playing a Mozart CD 2 minutes later or, 22 minutes before the … [Read more...]
Lessons from Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”
This is one of the greatest novels ever written and it’s interesting to see what people draw from it. The Consumerist has a short post about 5 Thrifty Lessons From Post-Apocalyptic Novel “The Road”. … [Read more...]
The Road (Not Quite a Review)
I’m currently reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. I’m about half-way through. I have to say that so far this novel (which come on, you have to admit) qualifies as science fiction, regardless of the fact that Michael Chabon doesn’t want to admit the truth. That it’s science fiction is a compliment, of course, as science fiction is that last literature of ideas whereas … [Read more...]
If there was a…
I'm not sure if I wrote this or not - if I didn't maybe someone will let me know but I found it scrawled amongst my writings. If there was a way to… complete and break… a cycle a circle… as letters keep…If there was a time to… heal and mend… a thought or line… as numbers meld…If there was a place to… hold and hail… a touch or taste… as arms embrace…If there was a word to… … [Read more...]
Magic… Or So I Gathered
I walk up the steps of the comic books shop. I peer inside the door and think “Why are there so many people here at this time of the evening?” Cautiously, oh so cautiously, I slowly open the door and go in. There are people sitting at tables, on the floors, crammed, packed and otherwise stuffed into this place. I make my way to the counter, the woman at the counter says to … [Read more...]